Controller CLARE 5:
Controller CLARE 5

Description of the default screen

  

 

 

The home screen is the screen that the controller displays after switching on. All other screens can be accessed from this screen. The home screen is fully user-configurable. The controller contains several predefined screens; the default can be selected in Display Settings.

 

IMPORTANT: Return to the home screen

By pressing the  (Back) button on screens other than the default, the controller will always gradually return to the home screen. The return is also automatic after a certain period of user inactivity (details in the article home screen activation time)

 

 

Each screen is divided into 16 equally sized positions as shown. Modules are then inserted into these positions, which can occupy a different number of positions. For example, the standard home screen contains four modules, where the largest one (zone temperature) occupies 8 positions (half of the screen area).

 

Zone temperature

The zone temperature is the most important reading on any temperature controller. Since it occupies the full 8 positions on the standard home screen, the height of the digits displaying the temperature reaches 25 mm. For the zone temperature, it is possible to configure in Settings whether it will be displayed in whole degrees, tenths, or hundredths of a degree Celsius. It is also possible to turn off the label  Z1  indicating that it is zone No. 1. Additionally, the sidebar indicator of the current heating power for this zone can be turned off. The color of the zone temperature can be adjusted in Settings.

 

Graph

The graph on the standard home screen shows the last temperature run or the current run. The graph displays the green programmed curve (controlled temperature) and the red curve showing the temperature in zone 1. If Module Zoom is enabled, the graph can be enlarged to full screen and viewed in more detail. The graph scales are automatically adjusted so that both the entire program curve and the entire temperature course in the zone can always be seen.

 

Regulated temperature

The regulated temperature expresses the instantaneous value of the temperature to which the controller is trying to adjust the temperature of the zone. As with the zone temperature, the label  TR  can be turned off, and it can be configured whether the temperature will be displayed in whole degrees, tenths, or hundredths of a degree Celsius. The color of the regulated temperature can also be changed in Settings. If the controller program performs a hold on the temperature, the remaining time until the end of the hold is displayed instead of the regulated temperature.

 

 

Set temperature

The desired temperature expresses the target (end) value of the temperature to which the controller will go in a given step, or the temperature at which it regulates during endurance. As with the zone temperature, the label  SP  can be turned off, and it can be configured whether the temperature will be displayed in whole degrees, tenths, or hundredths of a degree Celsius. The color of the desired zone can be selected in Settings.